There are good days, and there are days that should just be covered up with a drop sheet on our collection of wall calendars. Strike it down to experience and plan for improvement the next time around.
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With the simple request to take a deep breath, I completed my quest. A needle in the upper arm, hardly painful, filled with the best hope available from our leaders in health. I have been vaccinated, before coming into close contact with the dreaded virus.
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Sometimes, the rush to adapt new technologies leads to comedy. This evening, our local news station (yes, CBC) presented a bulletin on the outbreak of H1N1 (lead story, day after day) in a local school. The public has a right to know, and TV requires visual content. Skip sending the film crew down to the bottom of the hill; we’ll use that newfangled Google Streetview to show where we’re talking about.
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I can growl. One of the side effects of my current minor cold is that when I’m not coughing, I can growl much like our dog. She’s confused.
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Time to feed the fires of conspiracy theory. Here’s one: the price of fever thermometers is being driven up by hoarding, in case of an influenza pandemic. There; my part is done.
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The rule of thumb for our pandemic is clear; don’t get sick. Makes sense to me. After all, the flu isn’t supposed to be fun. No malingering allowed. Keep your hands clean. Cough somewhere else.
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How worried should we be? For months now, the word at the office is that we’re on the cusp of a pandemic. Yes, the one involving sore throats and pigs. Country Joe is providing theme music: the “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag“.
posted in health | Comments Off on Something about flying pigs, I think | 268 words
There. Without malice, I missed the department luncheon and went to let people stick their fingers in my eye. Had to be done.
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Here we are, another reasonable weekend coming to an end, and all I can think about is how sleeping is fun. Especially when you are warm and comfortable, on a not-too-full stomach with enough hours before sunrise to keep one on task. Linear.
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Just so you know, this is not a cry for mercy or special care or anything else. For the first time in years, I’ve “come down” with some nasty variant of the common cold, and I don’t like the feeling. I’d forgotten how little it takes to distract me from all that is wonderful. Right now, I’m in Day Two, and if the count can stop now I’ll admit that sick sucks.
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